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Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

The Munich Putsch and the Nazi Party, 1923–28

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Overview

Why Hitler struck in 1923, the beer hall and Ludendorff, the failed march, the trial and Landsberg, Mein Kampf, the ban, the lesson of the ballot box, the 1928 result, Bamberg and the rebuilt party.

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Key term

Why did Hitler think 1923 was his moment to seize power?

Key term

How did the Munich Putsch end on 9 November 1923?

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What is Mein Kampf and what ideas does it set out?

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  1. 1

    Why did Hitler think 1923 was his moment to seize power?

    Model answer

    The government was despised for surrendering in the Ruhr and for hyperinflation, and Nazi membership had grown to around 50,000.

  2. 2

    What happened in a Munich beer hall on 8 November 1923?

    Model answer

    Hitler and armed SA men burst into a meeting run by the Bavarian leader Gustav von Kahr and forced him at gunpoint to back a march on Berlin, with the war hero General Ludendorff brought in to win over the army.

  3. 3

    How did the Munich Putsch end the next day?

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    The marchers met armed state police in the centre of Munich, sixteen Nazis were shot dead, and Hitler escaped only to be arrested two days later.

  4. 4

    What sentence did Hitler receive, and how did the trial help him?

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    Five years for treason, of which he served about nine months in comfort at Landsberg. His courtroom attacks on the republic were reported nationwide and made him famous.

  5. 5

    What is Mein Kampf and what ideas does it set out?

    Model answer

    The book Hitler dictated in prison, arguing for a German master race, living space in the east, the destruction of communism, hatred of Jewish people and obedience to one leader.

  6. 6

    What price did the party pay for the failed putsch?

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    It was banned outright, its newspaper was closed and Hitler himself was forbidden to speak in public until 1927.

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